Atom: The Beginning (Japanese: ??? ???????, Hepburn: Atomu za Biginingu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tetsuro Kasahara, with writing contributions by Makoto Tezuka and Masami Yuki. The series is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy manga series, depicting the events up until the birth of Astro Boy. It began serialization in Shogakukan's Monthly Hero's magazine on December 1, 2014, and has been compiled into six tank?bon volumes as of June 2017. An anime television series adaptation aired from April 15 to July 8, 2017.
Video Atom: The Beginning
Plot
Two prodigies, Umatar? Tenma and Hiroshi Ochanomizu, have spent endless amounts of time researching robots with Tenma wanting to produce a god and Ochanomizu wanting to produce a friend, eventually producing the robot A106. The question that duo were wondering, would A106 eventually turn into a god or a friend?
Maps Atom: The Beginning
Characters
- Umatar? Tenma (?????, Tenma Umatar?)
- Voiced by: Y?ichi Nakamura
- Hiroshi Ochanomizu (??????, Ochanomizu Hiroshi)
- Voiced by: Takuma Terashima
- A106/Six (???, Shikusu)
- Voiced by: Y?ki Inoue
- Moriya Tsutsumi (????, Tsutsumi Moriya)
- Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai
- Motoko Tsutsumi (????, Tsutsumi Motoko)
- Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu
- Ran Ochanomizu (?????, Ochanomizu Ran)
- Voiced by: Ayane Sakura
- Kensaku Han (???, Han Kensaku)
- Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi
- Shunsaku Han (???, Han Shunsaku)
- Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita
- Maria (???)
- Voiced by: Yoshino Nanj?
Media
Manga
Kasahara's manga series began serialization in the Monthly Hero's magazine published by Shogakukan on December 1, 2014. Makoto Tezuka and Masami Yuki are responsible for the manga series' editorial supervision and concept design, respectively, with Tezuka Productions collaborating. As of June 5, 2017, the series has been published in six tank?bon volumes, with the first volume being published on June 5, 2015.
Volume list
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced in the July 2016 issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Hero's magazine in June 2016. The anime series is directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro and Tatsuo Sat?, with series composition by Jun'ichi Fujisaku and animation produced by OLM, Inc., Production I.G and Signal.MD. Takahiro Yoshimatsu designed the characters and Noriyuki Asakura composed the series' soundtrack. Shinobu Tsuneki, Yoshihiro Ishimoto and Shinichi Miyazaki are responsible for mechanical design. The 12-episode series aired from April 15 to July 8, 2017, on NHK G. It was streamed by Amazon on their Amazon Prime Video service. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for home video and exclusively streamed the series on Amazon's Anime Strike streaming service.
The opening theme song, titled "Kaidoku Fun?" (????, lit. "Indecipherable"), is performed by After the Rain, while the ending theme song, titled "Hikari no Hajimari" (??????, lit. "The Beginning of Light"), is performed by Yoshino Nanj?.
Episode list
References
- Notes
- References
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Official anime website (in Japanese)
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